JOURNALISM & JOURNALS : BOOKS
Q1. What is Journalism?
A study or a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting events on various subjects through the media, which includes newspapers, magazines, television, radio etc. Plays an active 'watch-dog ' in the day to day happening. Plays an important role in nation building, simultaneously remaining as an industrial source of employment, directly or indirectly for thousands of people.
Q2. How is Journalism termed in political parlance?
Fourth Estate.
Q3. What are the other three estates, when journalism in termed as fourth?
(1) Clergy / Religious Visionaries - I
(2) Noble Men / Intellectuals - II
(3) Common People / Work Force - III
(The media is considered as the Fourth Estate).
Q4. What are the two major categories in Journalism?
(1) Print Media - Newspapers, Magazines, etc. (2) Electronic Media - Television, Radio, etc.
Q5. What are the various types of Journalism?
1. PRINT JOURNALISM: Gathering or collecting information on any event and after its journalistic scrutiny is printed in the form of newspapers etc.
2. BROADCAST JOURNALISM: Report of a matter/event either live or later through electronic media, TV etc.,
3. ON LINE JOURNALISM: Disseminating or sharing of information gathered, through the "internet" of the computers. The fastest way to reach the farthest place possible.
4.SPORTS JOURNALISM: Covering and reporting of sporting events. Only knowledgeable persons (or a sportsman himself) who can criticize and contribute alone can report in a fair manner.
5. SCIENCE JOURNALISM: Reporting of science related matters / articles including medical science. One need not be an expert but should be able to analyze, understand and report it properly.
6. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: An important aspect of journalism, which reports on any illegal, immoral, and unethical attitude of a person/organization. This type of journalism which has to be authentic, involves, traveling, establishing sources, documentation and at times risky. But certainly worth the pains as it brings to light the bad elements of the society. Journalists also get due recognition.
7. CELEBRITY JOURNALISM: Reporting on the personal lives of people who are celebrities in their own field. Such reporting increases readership or viewer ship of the respective media.
8. GONZO JOURNALISM: Popularized American writer Hunter S. Thompson, but not a very popular one to be adopted as it is characterized by its punchy style, rough language, and ostensible disregard for journalistic ethics.
9. AMBUSH JOURNALISM: Refers to aggressive tactics practiced by journalists to suddenly confront with questions, who otherwise do not wish to speak to journalists.
10.GOTCH JOURNALISM: Refers to the deliberate manipulation of the presentation of facts in a report, in order to portray an individual or an organization in a particular way that varies from accuracy.
11.YELLOW JOURNALISM: That features scandal mongering, sensationalism, jingoism or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists.
12.FASHION JOURNALISM: Reporting on the latest developments in the fashion world.
13.PARACHUTE JOURNALISM: Reporting by inexperienced journalists, leading to inaccurate or distorted reports.
14.CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Citizen Journalism: Also called "Participatory Journalism", where citizens play an active role in collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information.
15.ADVOCACY JOURNALISM: A fact based and supports a specific point of view on an issue.
16.ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM: Collection, verification, production and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
17.VIDEO JOURNALISM: A form of broadcast journalism, where the production of video content which the journalists shoot, edit and present it with the issue material.
Q6. Who are the people directly involved in journalism?
The collective effort of the following is essential: (1) Journalists, (2) Reporters, (3) Editors, (4) News Presenter, (5) Photojournalists, (6) Columnists, (7) Visual journalists and a host of other professionals.
Q7. Who are the present day famous journalists?
Famous Indian Journalists:
1.M.J.Akbar: Founder "Asian Age", Editor in chief of "The Deccan Chronicles", Hyderabad.
2.Amid Verma: Columnist. Hindustan Times - Consultant "Cricinfo".
3.Aniruddha Bahl: Founder/Editor in chief of Cobra Post. Wrote "Banker 13" espionage thriller - exposed Defence Deal corruption through "Operation West End" - and through "Operation Duryodhan" exposed MPs taking bribe for talking questions.
4.Sambit Bal: Editor Cricinfo - Website, Editor "Cricinfo" magazine - both owned by Wisden.
5.Barkha Dutt: NDTV journalist - coverage of Kargil War - Kashmir politics - "We The People" her famous Talk Show.
6.Shekar Kupta: CEO/Indian Express Group. "Walk The Talk"/NDTV is his famous Talk show.
7.C.R.Irani: Editor in chief "The Stalioueas" His opposition to "the Emergency" and "Press Censorship" during Indira Gandhi's resign is noteworthy.
8.Swaminathan Aiyer: Economic Journalist consulting editor "The Economic Times"
9.Thomas Jacob: Editorial Director of Malayala Manorama/Kerala.
10.Manoj Joshi: Editor - Hindustan Times.
11.M.V.Kamath: Former Chairman Prachar Bharati, Editor of "Illustrated Weekly of India"
12.Harish Khare: Political Editor "The Hindu"
13.Nidhi Kulpathi: NDTV Journalist.
14.Kunal Pradhan: Sport Editor/Mumbai Mirror.
15.Rajiv Mishra: Broadcast/Media Professional. Founder of Electronic media rating council - His methodology in media rating has been recognized worldwide.
16.Chandan Mitra: Editor & MD - the Pioneer.
17.Khalid Mohammad: Film journalist / Hindustan Times - He is also screen writer, film director.
18.Seema Mustafa: Political Editor / Asian Age.
19.Q.W.Naqvi: Editorial Director "Aaj Tak" Television news channel.
20.Vineet Narain: Journalist and anti-corruption activist. He was instrumental in exposing the Hawala Scandal in the 1990s.
21.Rajan Narayan: Editor "Goan Observer"
22.Nidhi Razdan: NDTV journalist.
23.Prabhu Chawla: Editor "India Today"
24.Aroon Purie: Founder & Editor in chief of "India Today"
25.Rajdeep Sardesai: Formerly of NDTV - now the Head of his own company "Global Broadcast News" - his famous programme on NDTV was "The Big Fight" - he is the son of former Indian Cricketer Dilip Sardesai.
26.Narasimhan Ram: N.Ram - Editor in chief of "The Hindu" and other publications like Frontline, Sportstar.
27.Smriti Rao: NDTV journalist.
28.Dr.Prannoy Roy: Founder & President of NDTV. Specializes in covering elections "The World This Week" was his famous TV show.
29.Phalgummi Sainath: A famous photo journalist on social problems. Grand son of former Indian President V.V.Giri. Described as "One of the world's greatest exports on famine & hunger" by Amartya Sen.
30.Vir Sanghvi: Editorial Director of Hindustan Times.
31.Shankarshan Thakur: Executive Editor of Tehelka.
32.Shereen Bahn: CNBC- TV18 - Associate Editor (Political Affairs) "We The People" for Star TV was her famous show.
33.Karan Thapar: President, Infotainment, Television - famous for his aggressive TV interviews of famous personalities.
34.Arun Shourie: He was Editor of Indian Express. He was also a minister during NDA regime.
35.Khushwant Singh: A famous journalist of yester years. He became famous as an editor of Illustrated Weekly of India. He also wrote a few books.
36.Mohan Sivanand: Editor of "Readers Digest" Indian Edition.
37.Chitra Subramaniam: A noted journalist for her exposure of "Bofors Scandal".
38.TVR Shenoy: Eminent journalist and columnist of India.
39.Rajan Bala: A famous sports journalist.
40.S.Mohan: Sport journalist of repute.
41.Siddharth Varadarajan: The "Hindu". His famous reports were NATO war against Yugoslavia, destruction of Bamiyan 42.Buddhas in Afghanistan by Talibans, War in Iraq etc.
43.Vikram Chandra: CEO - NDTV.com and Senior Editor of NDTV.
44.Vinot Mehta: Editor in chief - Outlook.
and many more.
Q8. What are the famous Journalism schools/colleges?
1. Asian College of Journalism. Bengaluru, Chennai.
2. Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism, Bhopal.
3. Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, Pune.
4. Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi.
5. International Institute of Mass Media, New Delhi.
6. Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal.
7. Bhavan's School of Journalism.
8. Xavier Institute of Mass Communication, Mumbai.
9. Amity School of Communication, Noida.
10. Number of universities across the country.
Q9. When did journalism or newspapers came to be recognized in India?
During the later half of the 19th century and early 20th century when the thought of freedom sparked in the minds of Indian people, when communication became a necessity.
Q10. What is the infamous act of British India related to Journalism?
Vernacular Press Act.
Q11. What is a Newspaper?
A paper publication carrying various news items, worthy of dissemination among the mass at an affordable price. It may be daily or otherwise, may be in English or any vernacular language of the region concerned. It is a daily issue.
Q12. What is the general allocation of space for various news items in a newspaper?
FRONT PAGE : Important World / country or Regional news of importance or events.
CENTRE SPREAD : Editorial on any specific issue under scrutiny either national or international and other global political or other issues.
REGIONAL NEWS : Covering of state or regional news.
BUSINESS PAGE : Business developments, transactions, Share Markets, Bullion Rates, Industrial products or takeovers, etc.
SPORTS PAGE: World, Country and Regional sporting events.
Besides these a host of other items like sensational news, religion, television, crime, books, cinema, etc are included.
Q13. What is a Magazine also called "Periodicals"?
Magazines are generally in book form, of different sizes, published weekly, fortnightly or even monthly, mostly contributing to stories, cinema, sports, fashion, electronics, jokes, comics, religion, etc with caricatures, cartoons, pictures, photos. Generally carries individually contributed articles. They normally have more regional readership, excepting certain English magazines. They are huge in number.
Q14. What are the different sizes in which newspapers are published?
TABLOID: 23.5 * 14.75 inches / 597 * 375 mm.
BROAD SHEET : Generally 29.5 * 23.5 inches. This is the general specification used in almost all countries, with slight variations. In our country, 27 * 21.5 inches (full spread) are generally used or followed.
BERLINER: Slightly bigger than "Tabloid" - 18.5 * 12.4 inches / 470 mm * 315 mm.
COMPACT: It is not a standard size. It is a tabloid printed in broad sheet quality paper. A general term used in Britain and few other countries.
Q15. Which is the first newspaper to be published in the world?
The Relation: By Johan Corollous, Straussburg, Germany is recognized as the world's first newspaper by the World Association of Newspapers.
Q16. Which is the first newspaper to be published in India?
Bengal Gazette - 27.1.1780 by J.A.Hickey, Calcutta.
Q17. Which are the oldest surviving newspapers in the world?
1. Belfast Newsletter: UK - published from 1737 - oldest surviving newspaper. 2. Postoch Inrikes Tidningar: Sweden published continuously from 1645.
Q18. Which is India's oldest surviving newspaper of India?
Mumbai Samachar - 1822 - Gujarati.
Q19. Which is India's oldest surviving English newspaper?
Times of India - 1838 - Mumbai.
Q20. Which is the oldest magazine of India?
Calcutta Review - 1844.
Q21. What is World Association of Newspaper (WAN)?
An organization made up of 76 National Newspapers Associations, 12 News Agencies and 10 Regional Press organizations etc. Founded in 1948. The association takes care of (1) Press Freedom; (2) Development of Newspapers and Magazines around the world and (3) Promote Cooperation amongst its members. It also administers the "Golden Pen for Freedom Award" for journalists for defending and promoting the freedom of the press.
Q22. What is Audit Bureau of Circulation?
An organization which audits circulation, readership, audience information for the magazines, newspapers and other publications. It certifies the number of copies circulated by each publication. A few countries are having their own organization.In India, it was established in 1948 and is headquartered at Mumbai.
Q23. Which is the first Vernacular newspaper of India?
Mumbai Samachar - Gujarati - 1822 - Founded by Fardumjee Marazban.
Q24. Which country has the lowest rate of newspaper circulation per capita?
Indonesia.
Q25. What was the newspaper founded by Gandhiji?
Indian Opinion.
Q26. Who started the "Vande Mataram" newspaper?
Madame Bhikaji at UK.
Q27. What was the newspaper started by Gandhiji in India?
Harijan - released first on 11.2.1933.
Q28. To whom the "Golden Pens of Freedom" Award is given?
Newspaper editors - by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers to journalists who defend and promote press freedom.
Q29. What was the name of Press Trust of India before 1949, when it was owned and operated by Reuters?
Associated Press of India.
Q30. Which was the First newspaper to be typeset and printed on a moving train?
The Weekly Herald.
Q31. What is the English newspaper edition of Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group?
The Telegraph.
Q32. Which is the only Sanskrit newspaper published?
Sudharma - from Karnataka - also available on internet.
SOME IMPORTANT NEWSPAPERS OF INDIA & NEWS AGENCIES
NEWS AGENCIES:
There are four news agencies, viz:
Press Trust of India (PTI) - set up in 1947
United News of India (UNI) - set up in 1961
Samachar Bharati
Hindustan Samachar
Hindi news service of UNI is called "Univarta" which was started in 1982. Similar news service by PTI called "Bhasha" which was launched in 1986. In addition to the above news agencies, there are several news agencies which supply news to the media, some of which are:
News and Features Alliance (INFA)
Indian Press Agency (IPA)
Near and Far Eastern India News Agency (EINS)
Indian East News (NAFFN)
News Features of India (NFI)
All India Radio (AIR):Started in early 1920s, the first programme was broadcasted in 1923 by the Radio Club of India. This was followed by setting up two broadcasting services in 1927 with two privately-owned transmitters at Bombay, Calcutta. The government took over the transmitters in 1930 and started operating them under the name of Indian Broadcasting Service.
Important Foreign News Agencies:
Reuters - UK
Associated Press (AP)
International News Service (INS) - USA
United Press International (UPI)
United Press of America (UPA)
Near and Far East News Agency
Agence France Presse (AFP) - France
Potka Agencia Prasova - Poland
Ceteka - Czech Republic
Xinhua New China News Agency - China
Antara - Indonesia
Arab News Agency - Africa
TASS - Russia.
COUNTRIES AND ENGLISH NEWS PAPERS:
AUSTRALIA: The Age Sydney Morning Herald
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Herald
AUSTRIA: Kronen Zeitang
BANGLADESH:The Daily Independent, New Age, The Bangladesh Observer
BHUTAN:The Daily Star, Kuensel
CAMBODIA:Phnom Penh Post
CHINA: Global Times, Dahe Daily, Xinhua, China Daily, Guangzhou Daily, People's Daily
CUBA: Granma Internacional
CZECH REPUBLIC: The Prague Post
DENMARK: The Copenhagen Post
EGYPT: Al Ahram
FRANCE: Le Monde Diplomatique
FINLAND: Helsingin Sanomat
GEORGIA: The Georgian Times
GREECE: Kathimerini
IRAN: IRIB News
GERMANY: Bild
IRELAND: Limerick Post
IRAQ: Azzaman
ISRAEL: Jerusalem Post
ITALY: Corriere della Sera, La RepublicaIndonesia
INDONESIA: Rakyat Merdeka
JAPAN: Shimbun Akahata, Sports Nippon, Hokkaido Shimbun, Chunichi Sports, Nishinippon Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun
JAMAICA :Jamaica Gleaner
JORDAN: Jordan Times
KENYA: The Standard
LATVIA: Baltic Times
LEBANON: Lebanon Daily Star
MYANMAR: New Light of Myanmar
MALAYSIA: The Star, Daily Express
NEW ZEALAND: The New Zealand Herald
NORWAY: Norway Post
NAMIBIA: The Namibian
PHILIPPINES:Daily Tribune, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times
POLAND: The Warsaw Voice, Fakt
PAKISTAN: Daily Times, Dawn, The Nation, The Post, The News International, The Statesman, The Star,
QATAR: Al Jazeera
ROMANIA:Nine O' Clock
RUSSIA: St Petersburg Times, Moscow News My Paper, Business Times, Moscow Times, Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovskij Komsomolets,Izvestia
SINGAPORE: The New Paper, The Straits Times, Today
SOUTH AFRICA: The Star, Daily Mirror, Daily News,
SRI LANKA: The Island, Lakbima News, The Nation.
SLOVAKIA: The Slovak Spectator
SOUTH KOREA: The Chosun Ilbo, Jhoon Ang Ilbo, Han Kook Ilbo, Maeil, Economic Daily
TURKEY: Zaman
THAILAND: Thai Rath, Kom Chad Leuk
TAIWAN:Bangkok Post, Liberty Times, The China Post
TRINIDAD: Trinidad Guardian
TANZANIA: The Arusha Times
UNITED KINGDOM: The Sun, Daily Mail, The Times, Daily Star, Manchester Guardian, The Daily Mirror
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Post, Wall Street Journal
UGANDA: The Monitor
UKRAINE: Kiev Post
YEMEN: Yemen Times
ZAMBIA: Times of Zambia
ZIMBABWE: The Independent
FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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A Farewell to Arms | Earnest Hemingway |
A Million mutinies | V.S.Naipaul |
A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
A Passage To India | E.M.Forster |
A Mid-summer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
A Prisoner's Scrapbook | L.K.Advani |
Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazl |
Akbarnama | Abul Fazl |
A Thousand Suns | Dominique Lapierre |
Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward |
All the Prime Minister's Men | Janardhan Thakur |
All is Well That Ends Well | William Shakespeare |
An Idealist View of Life | Dr.S.Radhakrishnan |
A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fischer |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
Antony & Cleopatra | William Shakespeare |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
Arms and The Man | George Bernard Shaw |
Arthashastra | Kautilya |
Ascent to Everest | Sir John Hunt |
A Bunch of Old Letters | Jawaharlal Nehru |
An Idealist View of Life | Dr.S.Radhakrishnan |
A Town Called Malgudi | R.K.Narayan |
Audacity of Hope | Barrack Obama |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Beginning of the Beginning | Bhagwan Rajneesh |
Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
Born Free | Joy Adamson |
Bread, Beauty & Revolution | K.A.Abbas |
Breakthrough | Genl.Moshe Dayan |
Babur Nama | Babur |
Birth and Death of the Sun | George Bernard Shaw |
Broken Wing | Sarojini Naidu |
By God's Decrees | Kapil Dev |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw |
Candida | George Bernard Shaw |
Catch - 22 | Joseph Heller |
Chemmeen (Malayalam) | Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai |
Chitra | Rabindranath Tagore |
Chithirapavai - Tamil | Akilan |
City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
Conquest of Self | Mahatma Gandhi |
Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
Crisis into Chaos | E M S Namboothiripad |
City, the Beloved Country | Allan Paton |
Confessions of a Lover | Mulk Raj Anand |
Chinese Betrayal | B.N.Malik |
Confessions of a Swadeshi | Yashwant Sinha |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Danger in Darjeeling | Satyajit Ray |
Das Capital | Karl Marx |
David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
Death of a City | Amrita Pritam |
Debacle | Emile Zola |
Decline & Fall of Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
Descent of Man | Charles Darwin |
Devdas | Sarat Chandra Chatterjee |
Dilemma of Our Time | Harold Joseph Laski |
Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
Divine Life | Swami Sivananda |
Dr. Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
Doctor's Dilemma | George Bernard Shaw |
Don Juan | Lord Byron |
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervanter |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | R.L.Stevenson |
Durgesh Nandhini | Bankim Chandra Chatterji |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Earth | Emile Zola |
Emma | Jane Austen |
Ends and Means | Aldous Huxley |
Eternal Himalayas | Maj.H.P.S.Ahluwalia |
Ethics for the New Millenium | Dalai Lama |
Expanding Universe | Arthur Stanley Eddington |
Essays for Poor to the Rich | John Kenneth Galbraith |
Experiments with Untruth | Michael Anderson |
Eighteen Fifty Seven | S.N.Sen |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry |
Family Reunion | T.S.Eliot |
Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
Farewell the Trumpets | James Morris |
Freedom at Midnight | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre |
For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
Friends and Foes | Sheikh Mujibur Rehman |
From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
Faces of Everest | Maj.H.P.S.Ahluwalia |
Freedom from Fear | Aung San Su Kyi |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Gandhi and Stalin | Louis Fisher |
Gardner | Rabindranath Tagore |
Ganadevata | Tarashankar Bandhopadhyay |
Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Godaan | Prem Chand |
Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
Gone with the Wind | Margaret Michell |
Good Earth | Pearl S.Buck |
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
Gypsy Masala | Preethi Nair |
Gulag Archipelago | Alexander Solzhenitysyn |
Guide | R.K.Narayan |
Great Expectations | Charles Dicken |
Grammar of Politics | Harold Joseph Laski |
Good Bye Mr. Chips | James Hilton |
Geet Govinda | Jayadev |
Geeta Rahasya | Bala Gangadhar Tilak |
Gora | Rabindranath Tagore |
Great Illusion | Norman Angell |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
Harry Poter Series | J.K.Rowling |
Heir Apparent | Dr.Karan Singh |
Himalayan Blunder | Brig.J.P.Dalvi |
Hindu View of Life | Dr.S.Radhakrishnan |
Harsha Charita | Bana Bhatt |
Heroes and Hero Worship | Thomas Carlyle |
Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell |
Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
Hungary Stones | Rabindranath Tagore |
House Divided | Pearl S.Buck |
Human Factor | Graham Greene |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Idols | Sunil Gavaskar |
Ideas and Opinions | Albert Einstein |
I Follow the Mahatma | K.M.Munshi |
If I am Assasinated | Z.A.Bhutto |
Ignited Minds | A P J Abdul Kalam |
In Memoriam | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
In Search of Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
India in the New Millennium | Dr.P.C.Alexander |
India Discovered | John Keay |
India Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
India - Emerging Power | Stephen Philip Cohen |
India - Another Millennium | Romila Thapar |
India of Our Dreams | M.V.Kamath |
India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalam Azad |
India - Priceless Heritage | N.A.Palkhiwala |
Indian Philosophy | Dr.S.Radhakrishnan |
Interpreter of Maladies | Jumpi Lahiri |
Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
Is New York Burning? | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapiere |
Is Paris Burning? | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapiere |
Isabella | John Keats |
Idiot, The | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
India from Curzon to Nehru and After | Durga Das |
Indian Home Rule | M.K.Gandhi |
India - China War | Neville Maxwell |
Indira's India | Nihal Singh |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
Jurassic Park | Michael Chrichton |
Judegment, the | Kuldip Nayyar |
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Kapala kundala | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
Kamasutra | Vatsyayana |
Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
Kashmir - a Tragedy of Errors | Tavleen Singh |
Kayar (Malayalam) | Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai |
Kidnapped | R.L.Stevenson |
Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
King Lear | William Shakespeare |
Kulrla Khan | Sameul Taylor Coleridge |
Kadambari | Bhana Bhatt |
Kumar Sambhava | Kalidas |
King of Dark Chamber | Rabindranath Tagore |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Lady Chatterby's Lover | D.H.Lawrence |
Lajja | Taslima Nasreen |
Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
Life Divine | Sir Aurobindo Ghosh |
Loliva | Vladimir Nabakov |
Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
Love Story | Eric Segall |
Light that Failed | Rudyard Kipling |
Lipika | Rabindranath Tagore |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Malgudi Days` | R.K.Narayan |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles | Ved Mehta |
Mahatma Gandhi | Romain Roland |
Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
Man Eater of Kumaon | Jim Corbett |
Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
Memories of Hope | Genl.Charles De Gaulle |
Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus | John Gray |
Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
Moley Dick | Hermann Melville |
Mother India | Katherine Mayo |
Mother | Maxim Gorky |
Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
My Days | R.K.Narayan |
My Life | Bill Clinton |
My Life and Times | V.V.Giri |
My Music, My Life | Pt.Ravi Shankar |
My Presidential Years | R.Venkataraman |
My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw |
Marriage and Mortals | Bertrand Russel |
Meghdoot | Kalidas |
Men Who Killed Gandhi, The | Manohar Malgonkar |
Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
Mudra Rakshas | Visakhadutta |
My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
My China Diary | Narwar Singh |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Nana | Emile Zola |
Nice Guys Finish Second | B.K.Nehru |
Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell |
No Full Stops in India | Mark Tully |
Naganandan | King Harshavardhan |
Nehru: The Making of India | M.J. Akbar |
Netaji: Dead or Alive | Samar Guha |
Non Violence in Pease and War | Mahatma Gandhi |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Oh! Jerusalem | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre |
Of Human Bondage | Somerset Maugham |
Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
Operation Blue Star | Lt.Gen K.S.Brar |
Othello | William Shakespeare |
Our Films, Their Films | Satyajit Ray |
Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Pakistan Cut to Size | D.R.Manekar |
Pakistan - The Gathering Storm | Benazir Bhutto |
Pancha Tantra | Vishnu Sharma |
Paradise Lost | John Milton |
Paradise Regained | John Milton |
Pather Panchali | Bibhuti Bhushan |
Plain Speaking | Chandra Babu Naidu |
Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore |
Prelude | William Wordsworth |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
Principia Mathematica | Bertrand Russel |
Prison Diary | Jaiprakash Narayan |
Profiles in Courage | John F.Kennedy |
Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
Patriot, The | Pearl S. Buck |
Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
Principia | Isaac Newton |
Poverty and Famines | Dr.Amartya Sen |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Robertson's Ruby | Satyajit Ray |
Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
Ramayana | Maharishi Valmiki |
Rebecca | Rebecca |
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
Romeo & Juliet | William Shakespeare |
Ramacharitamanas | Tulsidas |
Ranghbhoomi | Premchand |
Rape of Bangladesh | Anthony Mascarenhas |
Ratnavali | Harsha Vardhan |
Reminiscences of Nehru Age | M.O.Mathai |
Repubilc, | The Plato |
Revenue Stamp, | The Amrita Pritam |
Ritu Samhara | Kalidas |
Rubaiyat - 1 Omar Khayyam | Edward Fitzgerald |
Riddles in Hinduism | B.R.Ambedkar |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Self Restraint Versus Self Indulgence | Mahatma Gandhi |
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Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
Siddharta | Hermann Hesse |
Small is Beautiful | Ernst Schumacher |
Sons and Lovers | D.H.Lawrence |
Swami and Friends | R.K.Narayan |
Satanic Verses, | The Salman Rushdie |
Savithri | Sir Aurobindo Ghosh |
Shakuntala | Kalidas |
Shame | Salman Rushdie |
Song of India | Sarojini Naidu |
St. Joan | George Bernard Shaw |
Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
Sahibs Who Loved India | Kushwant Singh |
T
BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Talisman | Sir Walter Scott |
Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tempest | William Shakespeare |
Thank You, Jeeves | P.G.Wodehouse |
The Adventures of Sherlock | P.G.Wodehouse |
Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Agony and Ecstasy | Irwing Stone |
The Apple Cart | George Bernard Shaw |
The Art of Happiness | Dalai Lama |
The Cancer Ward | Alexander Solzhenitzyn |
The Court Dancer | Rabindranath Tagore |
The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
The Fifth Horseman | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre |
The Fury | Salman Rushdie |
The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth |
The God Father | Maria Puzo |
The Moon and Six Pence | Somerset Maugham |
The Moon's Last Sigh | Salman Rushdie |
The Name Sake | Jhumpa Lahiri |
The Otheside of Midnight | Sydney Sheldon |
The Painted Veil | Somerset Maugham |
The Road Ahead | Bill Gates |
The Second World War | Winston Churchill |
The Struggle and the Triumph | Lech Walesa |
The Testament | John Grisham |
The Total Zone | Martina Navratilova |
The Vendor of Sweets | R.K.Narayan |
The Vicar of Wake Field | Oliver Goldsmith |
The Waste Land | T.S.Eliott |
The Thirteenth Sun | Amrita Pritam |
Time Machine | H.G.Wells |
Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
Twelfth Night | Shakespeare |
Two Leaves and a Bud | Mulk Raj Anand |
To Live or Not to Live | Nirad C. Choudhary |
Triumph | John Kenneth Galbraith |
Twenty Years After | Alexander Dumas |
The Bride's Book of Beauty | Mulk Raj Anand |
The Fire and The Rain | Girish Karnad |
The Man Who Divided India | Rafiq Zakaria |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Ulysses | James Joyce |
Unto the Last | John Ruskin |
Utopia | Thomas Roe |
Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
Uttar Ramcharita | Bhavabhuti |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Valley of the Dools, | The Jacquline Susaan |
Vanity Fair | William Thackeray |
View from the UN | U Thant |
Vinay Patrika | Tulsidas |
Vish Vriksha | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
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BOOK | AUTHOR |
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Waiting for the Mahatma | R.K.Narayan |
Wake Up India | Annie Beasant |
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
Wings of Fire | APJ Abdul Kalam |
War of Indian Independence | Vir Savarkar |
War of the Worlds | H G Wells |
We Indians | Kushwant Singh |
Worshippng False Gods | Arun Shourie |
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q33. Which is the earliest known printed book?
Hiraka Sutra - A Chinese book from a Sanskrit treatise. Printed around 868 AD. Also called "Diamond Sutra".
Q34. Which is the first mechanically printed book?
Bible. Called the "Gutenberg Bible", printed in Germany by Johannes Gutenberg who invented the mechanical printer.
Q35. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages?
Bible.
Q36. Which is the only religious book to have been printed in the Pitman's Shorthand script?
Bible.
Q37. Which is the largest book ever to be printed?
Super Book - Weighing 252 kg in the size of 270 x 300 cm, at Denver, Colorado - USA in 1976.
Q38. What is the longest novel ever published?
"Les Hommes De Bonne Volonte" meaning "Man of Goodwill" by Louis Henri Jean Farigovle of France in 1885, in 27 volumes. Its English version was published in 1933 in 14 volumes with 4959 pages.
Q39. Who has authored the maximum number of novels?
Mrs.Mary Faulkner (Kathleen Lindsay) Africa - 904 novels. (Enid Blyton comes second with 800 books)
Q40. What are the smallest printed book ever?
1.Old King Cole - A children's story book measuring 1 x 1 mm(0.04 inches wide) published in 1985 at Strathclyde,Scotland . The uniqueness of the book is that the pages can be turned only with the tip of a needle.
2. "The World's Smallest Book" - is also another smallest book recorded. It was Edited by German typographer Josua Reichert - measuring 2.4mm x 2.9mm. It comes with a magnifying glass for reading.
Q41. What is the thickest book printed ever?
A book produced by Peter Troendle of Basic, Switzerland, with a cover size only 5 * 4.5 cm but the thickness is 2.75 m.
Q42. What is the most expensive book?
"The Gospel Book of Henry The Lion" in 226 leaf manuscript was paid a price of 8.14 million pounds.
Q43. Which is the most ancient book ever displayed?
A 1600 year old "Coptic Psalter", 490 page book of Psalms, discovered in 1984 from the grave of a 12 year old girl from a Christian cemetery, south of Cairo, Egypt. The book dates back to the late 4th century and was displayed on 14.9.1992. The pages measured 17 x 13 cm and the book was tucked like a pillow under the girl's head.
Q44. Which author has received the largest advance for his first novel?
Vikram Seth - India for his book "A suitable Boy". He was paid 250000 pounds by Phoenix House, England and 600000 dollars by Harper Collins of USA.
Q45. Which is the first ancient book on medicine?
Atharva Veda: 1000 BC. A treatise on health, longevity and curative treatment from India.
Q46. What is earliest book on medicine from China?
Huangdi Neiching - 450 BC.
Q47. The British termed the book as "Seditious Stuff" and banned it. The "Vande Mataram" was taken from this book. What is the book?
"Anand Math" by Bankim Chandra Chattarjee.
Q48. What is the greatest ancient book on political system, and governance, recognized all over the world?
"Artha Shastra" by Kautilya.
Q49. Which book is the biography of Akbar?
Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazal.
Q50. Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Literature Prize for which book and in which year?
Gitanjali. It is a collection of poems - 1913.
Q51. What is the famous book of R.K.Narayan that fetched him the Sahitya Academi Award and was also made into a film by Dev Anand?
Guide.
Q52. Which book by Salman Rushdie became a big controversy in the Islamic circle and even threatened his life?
"Satanic Verses". It was also banned in India in October 1989.
Q53. "India Wins Freedom" is the autobiography of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. What is special about it?
Translated into English by Humayun Kabir Azad desired that 30 specific pages of his manuscript be kept unpublished until 40 years of Indian Independence. Accordingly it was kept sealed in the museums of Kolkata and Delhi. In 1989 the publishers obtained Supreme Court's permission for inclusion of those pages in the fresh prints.
Q54. What is the background of the book "Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens?
French Revolution.
Q55. What is the autobiography of Gandhiji?
My Experiments with Truth.
Q56. Boris Pasternak, Russia was considered for Nobel Literature for his book "Dr. Zhivago". But did not receive it why?
The book was based on the communist society in Russia. Due to the pressure exerted on him by the Russian government, he had to decline it.
Q57. In the book "Rhe Republic" by Plato, there is a dialogue between him and Socrates to find an answer for something what is it?
What is Justice?
Q58. Which Bangladeshi author and for what book, was in deep trouble in the country of her own?
Taslima Nasreen for her book "Lajja".
Q59. What is the name of the book, written by BJP Leader and former union minister, which created a big controversy during August 2009?
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence.
Q60. What is the name of the autobiography of Hitler, The Nazi Leader?
Mein Kampf.
Q61. How a book lover is called?
Bibliophile. Colloquially called Bookworm.
Q62. Prior to paper, what was used for writing?
Papyrus - Paper like material produced from the pith (soft spongy substance of a plant) of papyrus plant.
Q63. What was a Scroll?
Papyrus sheets glued together to make a lengthy roll for writing.
Q64. Prior to mechanical printing, what printing method was used?
Wood Blocks: A way of hand printing with letters or images carved into blocks of wood. The "Diamond Sutra" is the oldest known printed book in this form in 868 CE during the Tang Dyansty, China.
Q65. With regard to publishing, what are the two ways of doing them?
HARD COVER : Books with very hard covers to increase their shelf life, with quality papers.
PAPER BACK : Books with paper covers only which have lesser shelf life and thus the paper used for printing also differs in quality and make it cheaper.
Q66. What is the highest literary award in the world?
Nobel Literature (see under awards)
Q67. What is the highest literary award in India?
JNANPITH: Sponsored by Sahu Jain family of Times of India group from 1961 carrying a prize money of Rs.7 lacs, citation plague, and a bronze statue of Goddess "Vagdevi" of knowledge.
Q68. Who is the first Jnanpith Award winner?
Sankara Kurup of Kerala in 1965 for his book "Odakkuzhal".
Q69. What is the second highest literary award in India in terms of recognition?
Sahitya Akademy - from 1954 (See Awards)
Q70. Who is the only Indian to win a Nobel Literature?
Rabindranath Tagore - 1913.
Q71. Who are the first to receive Sahitya Academy Award in different languages?
Year |
Language |
Book |
Author |
1955 |
Assamese |
Bana Phul |
Jatindranath Dowerah |
1955 |
Bengali |
Shreshtha Kavitha |
Jibanananda Das |
1970 |
Dogri |
Nile Ambar Kala Badal |
Narendra Khajuria |
1960 |
English |
The Guide |
R.K.Narayan |
1955 |
Gujarati |
Mahadev Bhai Diary |
Mahadev Desai |
1955 |
Hindi |
Him Tarangini |
Makhanlal Chaturvedi |
1955 |
Kannada |
Sri Ramayana |
Darshanam Kuvempu |
1977 |
Konkani |
Himalayant |
Ravindra Kelekar |
1955 |
Malayalam |
Bhasha Sahitya Charitram |
R.Narayana Panikkar |
1973 |
Manipuri |
Pacha Meetei |
Imphal Amasung Magi |
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Nungshiki |
Philam Ishing |
1955 |
Marathi |
Vaidik Sanskruticha Vikas |
Laxman Shastri Joshi |
1977 |
Nepali |
Nepali Upanyas Ka Aadharharu |
Indra Bahadur Rai |
1957 |
Oriya |
Dilip |
Upendra Mohanty |
1974 |
Rajasthani |
Batan Ri Phulwari Vol X |
Vijayadhan Detha. |
1956 |
Sanskrit |
History of Dharma Shastra |
P.V.Kane |
1955 |
Tamil |
Tamil Inbam |
R.P.Sethu Pillai |
1955 |
Telugu |
Andhrula Sanghike Charitamu |
Suravaram Pratap Reddy |
1955 |
Urduv |
Maal Aur Mashiyat |
Zaffar Hussain Khan. |
Q72. What is the longest Encyclopaedia?
Yongle Dadian - 11095 Volumes in 22877 Chapters.
Q73. Who is the famous British fiction author, who was also a member of parliament?
Jeffrey Archer.
Q74. "War and Peace" is considered as the greatest book even today. What is the background on which it was written by Tolstoy?
Russian life set against the background of Napoleon's invasions.
Q75. The famous "Agony & Ecstacy" book is about?
Michaelangelo
Q76. What was the original title of the book Jaws?
The Summer of the Shark.
Q77. Which is the only book with single alphabet title that won a Booker's prize?
"G" by John Berger - 1952.
Q78. In which language the first "Speaking Book" was introduced in India?
Telugu - A medical book on "Clinical Trial Participation" by pressing a button, the user ears hear the text in the book. The book is brought out by the World Medical Association, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences and Pfizer India Ltd.
Q79. Which country's people read more books per capita than any other country people?
Iceland.
Q80. Which is the shortest play of Shakespeare?
The Comedy of Errors.
Q81. For which book Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize?
The God of Small Things.
Q82. In book publishing, what is India's position?
Seventh.
Q83. Which book contains quotes of Mao-Tse-Dung?
Little Red Book.
Q84. What was the original title of "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy?
All Is Well That Ends Well
Q85. What is a Black Book?
A book which has the names of persons deserving punishment.
Q86. Which country was the first to ban Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"?
India.
Q87. Which book was responsible for turning public opinion against DDT?
"Silent Spring" by Richard Carson.
Q88. What is "Yellow" and "Green" book in India?
They describe the level of security to be provided for the VIPs.
Q89. What is unique about the book "Gatsby" by Ernest Vincent Wright?
In all its 300 pages, the alphabet 'e' does not find a place, written in 165 days and the most irony is that, he died on the day the book was published.
Q90. Which day is observed as "World Book Day" and to commemorate which great literary personality's death?
23rd April - William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervanter, and Garcilaso de la Vega.
Q91. What is the book written by Dadhabhai Naoroji, the grand old man of India?
Un British Rule in India.
Q92. Which is the first book to be published through internet?
"Riding the Bullet" by Stephen King.
Q93. Who is sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln of Literature"?
Mark Twain.
Q94. "My Experiments with Truth" was originally written in which language and who translated it into English?
Gujarati - Mahadev Desai, secretary of Gandhiji translated it in English.
Q95. Who wrote the book "We the People"?
N.A.Palkiwala.
Q96. What is the world's first novel?
Tale of Genji in Japanese.
Q97. Which is the first novel in India written entirely in comic book style?
"Corridor" by Sarath Bannerji. Jehangir Rangoonwala is the hero of this book.
Q98. What was the first novel of the famous Somerset Maugham?
Liza of Lambeth.
Q99. "Cat and Shakespeare" is a book on the life in which city?
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Q100. Whose book is "Broken Wings"?
Sarojini Naidu.
Q101. Who wrote the book "In Search of Gandhi"?
Sir Richard Attenborough.
Q102. Who wrote the famous book "Les Miserables"?
Victor Hugo.
Q103. The book of "Legacy of Ashes" by Tim Weiner chronicles about which organization's failures?
About CIA's mistakes.
Q104. What are some of the official publications of various countries?
1.Blue Book - Official report of British Government.
2.Green Book - Official publication of Italy and Iran.
3.Grey Book - Official report of Japan and Belgium Government.
4.Orange Book - Official publication of Netherlands.
5.White Book - Official publication of Germany, Portugal & China.
6.Yellow Book - Official Book of the French.
Q105. What is a Library and the study related?
In a smaller sense, it is a centre of collection of books and in the large sense, it is a centre of collection of informative books, sources, resources and services, arranged and organized for use of all type of public. "Library Science" is the study of graduate and masters level.
Q106. What are the famous libraries of the world?
1.NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY : New York, USA - established in 1895 - employs about 650 people - one of the leading libraries of the world and USA's most significant research library.
2. RUSSIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY : St. Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1795, the oldest Russian library, as Imperial Public Library and became Russian National Library in 1814.
3. BRITISH LIBRARY : London - One of the world's most significant research library. It has a collection of about 25 million books. In its present identity, it was established in 1972 from the fold of British museum.
4. NATIONAL LIBRARY : Paris, France. Established in 1368 by Charles V.
5. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Washington, US. Established in 1800. One of the most important libraries in the world. Recorded as the largest library in the world. Has nearly 58 million manuscripts. Spread across three buildings viz. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison Building.
6.LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA: Egypt.
7.AMBROSIAN LIBRARY: Milan, France. Established in 1609.
8. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: Boston, US. Established in 1826.
9. BODLEIAN LIBRARY: Oxford University, London. Established in 1602.
10. BRITISH LIBRARY OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCES: London. Established in 1896.
11. BUTLER LIBRARY : Columbia University, USA - 1934.
12. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY : Cambridge, UK. 1931.
13. CARNEGIE LIBRARY: Pittsburgh, USA - 1895.
14. DUTCH ROYAL LIBRARY : The Hague, Netherlands - 1798.
15. FIRESTONE LIBRARY: Princeton University, 1948.
16. FISHER LIBRARY: University of Sydney - 1908 - Largest in Southern Hemisphere.
17. GARRISON LIBRARY: Gibraltar - 1793.
18. HAROLD B LIBRARY: Brigham Young University, USA - 1924.
19. EUROPEAN LIBRARY: A service of the world wide web that offers across the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe.
20. FREE LIBRARY: Philadelphia - US, 1891.
21. HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY: West Minster, UK, London, 1818.
22. JENKINS LAN LIBRARY: Philadelphia, USA - 1802.
23. JEWISH NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Jerusalem, Israel - 1892.
24. JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY: Manchester, UK - 1972.
25. LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Leiden, Netherlands, opened in 1587.
26. MITCHELL LIBRARY : Glasgow, London. Europe's Largest public reference library.
27. NATIONAL LIBRARY : Canberra, Australia.
28. NATIONAL LIBRARY: Ireland.
29. OSLER LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE: McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
30. LIBRARY OF GONDISHARPUR : Iran, Established during the Sassanid dynasty in 489.
31. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRAN : Tehran, Iran - 1937.
32. RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY : Moscow - 1862.
33. ROYAL LIBRARY: Copenhagen: Denmark, 1793.
34. VATICAN CITY LIBRARY: Vatican, Rome - 1448.
35. STATSBIBLIOTHEK: Berlin, Germany.
36. STATE LIBRARY: Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
37. KICHENER PUBLIC LIBRARY: Ontario, Canada, 1884.
Q107. What are the famous libraries of India?
1) CONNEMARA LIBRARY: Chennai - 1890 - foundation laid by Lord Connemara. It is one of the four national depository libraries of India which receives all newspapers, books, periodicals published in India. It also serves as a depository of united nations. It also has a Braille library and an IAS study centre.
2) NORTH BENGAL STATE LIBRARY: Cooch Behar, West Bengal 1870. Establised by Houghton.
3) ADYAR LIBRARY RESEARCH CENTRE : Chennai - 1886 - founded by Henzy Steel Olcott, a theosophist. Functions in the theosophical society, Adyar,Chennai.
4) ASIATIC SOCIETY LIBRARY: Mumbai - 1804 - started by Sir James Mckintosh.
5) DHANANJAY RAO GADGIL LIBRARY - 1905 - Function under the aegis of Servants of India Society, Pune.
6) HAZRAT PIR MOHAMMAD SHAH LIBRARY: Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 1905 - one of the oldest libraries of India.
7) ORIENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY: Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala. It is one of the leading centres of Indological studies. A world famous institution.
8) P.K.KELKAR LIBRARY: Kanpur, UP, Functions in the campus of IIT, Kanpur.
9) STATE CENTRAL LIBRARY: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 1829 by HH Swathi Thirunal Maharaja of Travancore considered to be the first public library of India.
10) NATIONAL LIBRARY OF KOLKATTA: Largest library of India - opened as Imperial Library in January 1903. Became a National Library in 1953.
Q108. What is the largest library in the world?
The Library of Congress - Washington.
Q109. What is the largest library in India?
National Library of India - Kolkata.
Q110. Which library in India is considered as an important reference centre for Indological studies?
Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala is considered as an important reference centre for Indological studies.
Q111. List a few oldest libraries in the world started before the 19th century?
1. Library of Gondisharpur, Iran - 489 AD.
2. National Library, Paris, France - 1368 AD.
3. Vatican City Library, Vatican, Rome - 1448 AD.
4. Leiden University Library, Leiden, Netherlands - 1587
5. Bodliean Library, Oxford University, London - 1602.
6. Ambrosian Library, Milan, France - 1609.
7. Garrison Library, Gibraltar - 1793.
8. Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark - 1793.
9. Russian National Library, St. Petersburg, Russia - 1795.
10. Dutch Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands - 1798.
Q112. What is an Archive?
It is also a library of a different kind. Here all the records, documents and other related files/papers are stored. They are mostly of diplomatic and political administration related documents.
Q113. Where is the National Archive of India? Where are the regional centres?
It is located at Delhi. It is functioning there since 1926. Oiriginally it was started as Imperial Record Department in Calcutta in 1891. Regional Office is located at Bhopal and three record centres at at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.Records are available from 1748 AD.
Q114. Who is considered as the father of libraries?
Callimachus: A Greek poet and librarian at the ancient library in Alexandria.